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- Subject: Re: Non-quotes
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- From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:11:27
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- In article <1993Jan27.153714.25142@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cbergstr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Chris N Bergstresser) writes:
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- >>And Shakespeare never said "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well."
- >>Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1, look it up.
- >>
- > The only problem is that Shakespeare is misquoted, but he did say "Alas,
- >poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio." The others are statements that were never
- >said, in any form, like . . .
- >
- > "The game is afoot!" -- not-Holmes
-
- Much as I hate to nitpick (oh, what a blatant lie; I LIVE to nitpick :-) ),
- Holmes did actually say this, at the beginning of "The Adventure of the Abbey
- Grange", waking Watson up at an obscene hour of a winter's morning. "`Come,
- Watson, come!' he cried. "The game is afoot. Not a word. Into your clothes and
- come!'"
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